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Finding Information

Search and browse publications from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)Mobile Version

Search and browse publications from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET, successor to the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)). IEEE Xplore contains all of the IEEE and IET publications: Journals, transactions, magazines, conference and colloquia proceedings, and IEEE Standards.

Publication Formats

A screencast that shows how to export records from IEEE Xplore and their full-text PDFs to RefWorks. (Flash required.)

RefWorks users will be happy to know that RefWorks provides support for formatting in IEEE style, including auto-creation of bibliographies. View the above screencast to see how to export records from IEEE Xplore into RefWorks. The following resources are for those who do not use RefWorks, or who wish to learn more about IEEE Editorial Style.

This is an addendum to the IEEE Editorial Style Manual with special focus on proper citation of references. Provides more comprehensive examples than the UT Arlington How-To Guide.

IEEE defers to the Chicago Manual of Style for additional rules on grammar and usage not included in their own style manual. UT Arlington Libraries have access to the Chicago Manual both online and in print, listed below.

A screencast that shows how to export records from ACM Digital Library in BibTex format, and then import the records and the full-text PDF to RefWorks. (Flash required.)

RefWorks users will be happy to know that RefWorks provides support for formatting references in ACM style, including auto-creation of bibliographies. View the above screencast to see how to export records from the ACM Digital Library into RefWorks. The below resources are for those who do not use RefWorks, or who wish to learn more about ACM Editorial Style.

The ACM doesn't specify where to defer for additional style rules. Their reference examples closely follow APA format. If you are looking for style rules that do not correspond to the examples in their template, I recommend deferring to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association [APA Manual] for additional rules on grammar and usage. UT Arlington Libraries has access to the APA Manual only in print, listed below. We have the supplement APA Style Guide to Electronic References available online.

Adapted from the sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, this comprehensive guide offers up-to-date information on formatting electronic references in APA Style. It outlines the key elements to include when referencing electronic sources, with an emphasis on using the digital object identifier (DOI) to locate web-based information reliably. Most important, it provides a wealth of examples for readers to model for everything from online journal articles to supplemental data sets and measurement instruments to books, videos, apps, websites, podcasts, blog posts, and social media.